What position did Merezhkovski occupy in the silver age of Russian poetry?

Merezhkovski was one of the most influential Russian writers, poets, playwrights, religious philosophers and literary critics from the end of 65438 to the beginning of the 20th century. His advanced consciousness transcends the boundaries of others' consciousness, and is unseen and touching in social life, which makes him encounter an incomprehensible fate in Russia, which is unpopular, and in the West, which is greatly praised and welcomed.

To some extent, Russian poetry in the "Silver Age" can be called the prominence of existentialism in the field of poetry. Judging from the current situation, if we can find an ideological movement that really has an impact on the whole world culture in the 20th century, and attack it in various spiritual fields of human beings, such as poetry, novels, music, drama, painting, dance, religion, philosophy, ethics and other fields. That will only be the "silver age" of Russia, which is hard to find in other countries. To some extent, it is similar to the Italian Renaissance and the French Enlightenment.

1893 Merezhkovski, a poet, novelist and literary critic, published a pamphlet "On the Decline Causes and New Trends of Contemporary Literature". He summed up the three elements of new art, namely "the content of mysticism, symbolism and the expansion of artistic appeal", and called for such a model work to fight against the naturalism and realism that pervaded the Russian literary world at that time. He believes that "symbol" can "show the infinite side of thought" and symbolism can "make the style and artistic essence of poetry lofty, crystal clear and transparent". This article played the role of Russian symbolic declaration at that time.

The development of Russian symbolism poetry has experienced three waves. Merezhkovski, gippius, Minsky and others are the main representatives of the first wave. This wave is the transition stage of Russian symbolism from the unconscious spontaneous state to the conscious conscious state, which is characterized by the lack of organizational rigor and theoretical systematicness, and some different ideas and creative principles are often expressed accidentally and sporadically. The second wave is marked by Symbolism, a three-volume collection of poems edited and published by Bolyusov in 1894- 1895. Among them are Bor Yusov, balmont, Sologubo, etc. , and Merezhkovski, gippius, Minsky and called "the symbolist of the older generation".